-ige

See also: ige and IgE

Middle English

-ige

From Proto-Celtic *sagyos (“seeker”).

-ige m

Forms nouns from existing nouns, indicating a person who engages in an activity associated with the base noun.
‎cath (“battle”) + ‎-ige → ‎cathaige (“warrior”)

After an unpalatalised consonant, the suffix becomes -aige.

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	-ige	-ige^L	-igi^L
Vocative	-igi	-ige^L	-igiu
Accusative	-ige^N	-ige^L	-igiu^H
Genitive	-igi^L	-ige^L	-ige^N
Dative	-igiu^L	-igib	-igib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Category Old Irish terms suffixed with -ige not found

-ige

Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 268

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